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In the formative phases where there are clear errors, it is absolutely unacceptable to allow quality control to let it out of the door. Your whole response is to say there will be errors as if thats a given, I disagree. When you hire the people he has hired with thr experience they have, and purchase the equipment and resources he has, the road to success should be faster than usual, and the people have the experience to know errors will surface so they do everything possible to mitigate them before release. But even if I was to humour your reponse for a moment, if errors are quite common then shouldnt even an inexperienced set of hires know about it to stop it going out of the door? And what does that mean for consumers or even companies who provide their products for testing? Are you saying everyone should give them a free pass and a pat on the back for trying? They have viewerships in the millions. They have a direct impact on market with the things they publish. They do not get a free pass for known incompetence.

This is the bit I didn't like in the response. "We wanted no one to buy it..." I have consumed LMG and LTT content for over a decade but I do not think you get to play god. It isn't your choice if someone buys it or not. Nor is it your choice to drive Billet Labs into a different "marketable" product. The onus of making a marketable product is on them, not you.
 
In general I have noticed some of the errors Steve from GN picked up on, but I let it slide when LMG positioned itself away from the data space. Now your emphasis with labs is on data and factual representation, the scrutiny is different. Old LMG content doesn't get a free pass. In the industry I work in (highly regulated data industry) simple errors like these get people fired because it irreversibly destroys reputations. You have built a positive reputation for over a decade on varied entertaining content, if this pivot into data-driven insights is premature I think the whole brand rep could slip away before you even realise it. I read the whole response as almost politicking the situation of why the data driven approach wasnt robust and to be honest I don't buy it. You have hired seasoned pros and clearly have the contacts and resources to fill the gaps and ensure robust approaches to data driven insights. Failing at quality control on videos, in my experience, correlates highly with failures in robust quality control procedures across a business. I have rarely posted in this forum and when I often disagree with your points I at least feel I can respect you have a set of principles you follow and are fairly consistent with them. But thats when it is opinion content, not data content. We are not god in the data driven space, data as a domain is god, its rules and procedures and quality and context allow us to tell its story. It doesn't give a shit about our bias.
 
I hope LMG can recover from this in the correct way and not just go about isolating and focusing on the people who show unwavering support. 

But it isn't our decision, Linus made the choice to not pay him and let him have it. Consider the alternatives, the guy could have straight up said no. They could have bid against each other and the lot been more expensive as a result. I just dont understand the outrage. It feels like fake outrage to me, taking offense on behalf of someone else who isnt offended. 
 
No offense. 

@LinusTech Would you please address the Mindchop thing at some point? I think it is unfair on the guy, hes just getting harassed and as per the video he was going to give you the plaque and you told him to keep it. His latest video has been destroyed with comments and dislikes from our community. 

But it isn't our decision, Linus made the choice to not pay him and let him have it. Consider the alternatives, the guy could have straight up said no. They could have bid against each other and the lot been more expensive as a result. I just dont understand the outrage. It feels like fake outrage to me, taking offense on behalf of someone else who isnt offended. 
 
No offense. 

These are just allegations. We dont know the full circumstances because we weren't there. What are your sources? If you're going to throw someone under the bus you should at least quote where you get the information from. 
 
I did think it was suspect how he was pretty much at an NCIX auction and looking Linus in the face and then acted like he didnt know. But there are many unknowns, like he may have just turned up because there was a 100k plaque listed online and he wanted it, not knowing anything about NCIX or otherwise. He may have not seen LTT videos or knew who Linus was because I know there are many channels with millions of subs that I dont know of, I discover a new one each week on YT. So it is entirely possible. 
 
Though I dont like his content, it doesn't mean his community doesnt exist. There may be as many subs as he has and they may like his videos.
 
But above everything else, I doubt Linus would want to destroy a persons channel. I don't know Linus personally but picking up from how he presents himself and the collaboration projects he does I just don't see that being the case. Linus and LMG in general do their due diligence. 

But it isn't our decision, Linus made the choice to not pay him and let him have it. Consider the alternatives, the guy could have straight up said no. They could have bid against each other and the lot been more expensive as a result. I just dont understand the outrage. It feels like fake outrage to me, taking offense on behalf of someone else who isnt offended. 
 
No offense. 

@LinusTech Would you please address the Mindchop thing at some point? I think it is unfair on the guy, hes just getting harassed and as per the video he was going to give you the plaque and you told him to keep it. His latest video has been destroyed with comments and dislikes from our community. 

I think depending on what you want from the laptop, it is quite a big task. I went down the lines of trying to get a laptop that i could upgrade at a later date but then realised it's a pointless and increasingly expensive task, far more than a desktop. Then I realised that even though replaceable GPUs have an MXM 3.0b form, the newer pascal GPUs in this form factor have an additional connector on-board which requires a further connector on the motherboard for it to work, so a future MXM upgrade seems difficult to near impossible. I finally went with the Clevo P650RP6 which has a soldered CPU and GPU so both are integrated into the motherboard. It has 16GB ram but can upgrade to 64GB DDR4, 2 2.5in HDD slots which will fit either 2x 7mm or 1x 7mm and 1x 9.5mm (I have a 960GB SSD and 2tb HDD in those) and then either 2x M.2 SATA drives or 1x M.2 NVMe, of which I have the latter in 256GB for the OS. This is literally the best set of upgrade-ability options I could find in any laptop that are futureproof and extensive. The laptop is 25mm thick. 
 
The alternative and much more expensive one would be the P775DM3 which has the option to upgrade the MXM and using a full desktop CPU in addition to the options on my laptop, but is over 40mm thick, and again there is no knowing if future MXM cards will even work given the additional connectors on existing MXM cards. 
 
The only ever MXM upgrade I did was on a Toshiba Satellite L600D when I upgraded that around 5 years ago. That was an ATI radeon mobility 4550 which I replaced with a 4670 I think. It made a world of difference in Skyrim at medium settings, 1366x768 LOL